AFC Cleaning & Restoration 3131 Wheeling Avenue…read moreKansas City, MO (Their website says Edwardsville, but a card I was given by Joe says KCMO.) As soon as we had the furniture moved after the heavy rains of July 16-17 got into our basement, I called AFC Cleaning & Restoration (Thursday) and told them I needed to have the water removed from my carpet. They had good online reviews. Robert arrived at 6:00 PM and started talking about tearing out the walls and carpet. I told him I wanted to try to save the carpet, as it wasn't that old and that the water came in through the window, not the foundation. He agreed to do that and then brought in fans and a dehumidifier. "Aren't you going to remove the water?" I asked. He said he was just going to set up fans and would be back. He assured me that if there was air movement, no mold would grow for three days. I texted him on Friday at 1:37 asking when he was going to work in our basement. I did not hear back from him until 10:36 that night when he said he could arrive between 10:30 and 11:30 on Saturday morning, would I be available. I did not see the text until 9:30 the next morning. "Yes, please" was my answer. A young couple showed up in a rusty pickup truck and said they were here to take out the pad. They had nothing to extract the water. They turned the fans to the inside of the room rather than to the edge where the carpet was the wettest. I texted Robert at 11:48 and told him the pad was out, but they put the wet carpet up against the baseboards and it was beginning to smell. I didn't hear a thing from him that day. I set the edge of the carpet up on plastic bins to get it off the baseboards and help get more air to it. On Sunday at 3:00 PM he texted me and asked me if he could swing by and take readings. Not expecting to hear from him on Sunday, I didn't see the message until 5:00 and responded "readings of what"? His response at 6:48 was "It's okay. Are you available tomorrow?" My response was "Yes, I need a time, though. I need someone to clean and sanitize the carpet and get it dried. It now smells. Readings of what?" I could have told him it was still very wet. His response "I'm not done drying it yet. It will start to smell better as it dries. I will also spray an anti Microbial spray." "So, you are never planning to vacuum the water out of the carpet - the one thing I asked for on Thursday?" His response "It gets cleaned after it's dry and the pad is replaced." Robert came by on Monday, but the carpet was still wet. He returned on Tuesday. The carpet was dry, five full days after the flood, and he sprayed microbial spray. When he was done, I mentioned that it still smelled and that I was unhappy he never extracted the water. "Oh, now that I'm done, you complain" was his reply. I was explaining that I had asked for the water to be extracted on Thursday and continuously through the process, but he just talked louder over me when I spoke. I told him that if he knew he couldn't extract the water, he should have told me at the beginning. He said it would have taken his crew longer to extract the water than using fans (no doubt). I reiterated that if they didn't have the crew available, they should have advised me in the first instance. He was frustrating me, so I told him to leave. I called the office the next morning and without identifying myself asked what they would do if someone had water in their finished basement that came up around their shoes. She proudly stated that they would first extract the water from the carpet. I said "Good, and how do you do that?" She explained that they have big machines that extract the water and remove it. I told her my name and that they did not do that in my basement. She agreed to send the manager to determine if the work done at my house was representative of their work product. A nice enough man named Joe came by and told me he didn't smell anything but carpet glue that had been made wet by the flood. On all other matters he agreed with me, but had no authority to do anything about it. He said he'd have the owner come by. The owner showed up and said all he smelled was acetate from the carpet. It was clear that his goal was to blame me. He said they didn't follow IICRC standards, because I asked them to try to save the carpet. I said, "So, you didn't follow your own standards, but you blame me?". He said "Yes". Yet, he didn't do what I asked him to do. I told him the young couple put the very wet carpet up against the baseboards and he said that wouldn't matter. I told him I asked for the water to be extracted several times, and he told me that using the fans was extracting the water. I disagreed. Not a single google search defines extracting water as using fans. Fans are the next step after extracting the water. I told him if he couldn't extract the water, they should have told me from the beginning, so I could have called someone else. He got up and left. What do they want for fans? $3000.

We had a pretty frustrating experience with AFC Cleaning and Restoration. We hired them to have our…read moreair ducts cleaned in our house. They charge per vent then spray an antimicrobial agent in the ducts after cleaning. The first tech that showed up to our house was 3 1/2 hours late and did not have all the tools to complete the job. Multiple vents were never even touched. He let us know that he was done with the job and my wife asked about the antimicrobial spray. He informed us that he did not have that machine on his truck and would have to come back at a later date. We also asked about the forgotten vents and he said that he would get those when he came back. I was told that I would not be charged for those vents. I had a conversation with the owner who was very apologetic and wanted to make it right. So I agreed to have them come back and finish the job. The second time they came out with two techs and were an hour late. They completed the rest of the job. Later I received an invoice for the entire job, including the vents we were not supposed to be charged for. Eventually I got the correct invoice and settled up with them. Overall just a headache of an experience.

Mr. Cleanz did a great job with painting, drywall, and matching the texture on the walls after…read morewater damage in our home. The only minor thing and I didn't mind it was I had to contact them a lot to keep our project moving anlong and getting it done.

Terrible customer service across the board. My roof started leaking again less than a year after…read moretheir repairs and they didn't honor the 5 year warranty provided as part of their contract agreement. Take pictures of everything and keep records because this company has zero integrity.

This is a follow up review to one I posted on here a few weeks back. I had water damage to our…read morenewly renovated basement. My experience with ServPro (at that time) was not a good one. I was given a hefty bill for service that I felt I did not receive and I left a very unpleasant review out here. Fast forward several weeks later and I received a call from the owner, Joe Lillian. He apologized and we had a long discussion about how my experience. He was very polite and very understanding and we worked out the situation and he is mailing me a discount for the services I felt I did not receive. He really went out of his way to make this situation right, and he did. I feel a lot better about ServPro now and I hope I do not ever have to reach out for help again, but if I do, Joe Lillian will get my first phone call! Thanks for caring Joe!

Excellent job on such short notice. Joe really helped us out and we're glad we used Servpro!read more

Certified Restoration is a small business that does home floods and put back. I had the worst…read moreexperience with them. Mr. Picard, who was doing the put back was the most unprofessional person I've had to deal with. We have a home about 40 miles east of Lee's Summit. Our home had some flood damage from heavy rains. We were calling flood companies in the middle of the night and finally got a hold of one. Certified restoration came out two days later to remove the water and cutaway the drywall and pull the carpet up. * Just mentioning we love out of town so we asked Jamie to keep us updated with everything*. She was awesome we received phone calls every other day she was giving us a breakdown and telling us where we could save money on the water mitigation. After that was finished we were out in contact with Mr. Picard. Mr. Picard from the start was lazy, we explained to him our situation and asked that we be updated every step of the was. The house is a rental property, and we weren't there to make sure the work is being done professionally and promptly. We had to contact Picard 5 times to even get a start date out of him. Then when he did he never fully had a straight answer as to why it was taking so long for our put back to start. I was told that he had several other jobs. Now, this is after two and a half months of already waiting. I would text him and ask when the next time you're foingnkit to the house. He never had an answer. He would never give me a straight answer and it he did it was always after the fact the I had to text him. This went of for months, I would text him again and ask when are you going back out to the house? Them he'd realomd with "oh yeah my guys are going out there tomorrow." I would then ask please update me when they're finished. He wouldn't my tenet would have to call me and let ms know. It got so bad that I had to call Clint his boss. The first time I called Clint and complained about Picard. He patched me through to Picard. I didn't wasn't to be patched through to Picard but I rolled with it. Thinking things would change. Things didn't change so after another month of playing phone tag and just simply asking to be kept in the loop. I was getting nothing. So I called Clint again. This time Clint stepped in and got a little more involved. The updates we coming but they were still horrible at best. Then comes the S***** workmanship. My tenet text and said they came out and that the dry wall looked like S***. Now my tenet doesn't do frame or drywall so if she knows it looks bad then it's bad. She sent the pics and it was something a three year old could have done better. I complained and they sent them back out. The second time they came back Out it was redone it still looked like s***. The third time after Clint called Picard did it look decent. The framing around a door was loss poor and other little things that a legitimate company would have not let slide. So after all this I called Clint and asked if there was a way they we could get some sort of discount. He said "with COVID and prices being hi for material, he could could do $150 off of a $10k job. I almost feel out of my chair. I told Clint that I wasn't happy that this job took 3 months longer that it should have. I wasn't happy with the quality of work Md I wasn't happy with Picard. I told him that the communication piece was horrible and that Jamie was amazing. LISTEN TO THIS HE LITERALLY SAID "It's because women are better communicators." I almost wrecked my car. I said a a man I'm a great communicator. It's not that hard in today's works to text updates and let people know what's going on. Actually we both agreed it literally easier. It was a sexist comment and an excuse from a boss to cover the sorry A$$ of his lazy put guy. I asked him if he we're to give the situation a grade that the grade he gives me I would give that grade to the insurance company when they followed up. He never gave me one because he knows the quality and over performance was s***. Using the excuse that your a small business is no excuse. Maybe better leadership and management from the top down would go a long way. If you can't handle the volume of work then don't take jobs you can't finish.

So grateful for Clint! Our dishwasher flooded the kitchen and he came out quickly to test moisture…read morelevels in our hardwoods. He was very professional, honest and explained everything very well and patiently answered all my questions. Luckily the water damage was not significant this time, but he's the one we'll call if we have problems again in the future!

Did air duct cleaning and later came and did chimney work that was leaking inside my entryway…read more Everything done with quality and good customer service.

I have used Aardvark for 5 years to clean the chimney on my wood burning fireplace. They are…read moreprompt, quick, and thorough. They layout drop cloths, brush and vacuum the flu, and inspect from the inside and up on the roof. Many other services offer "cleaning if necessary". Don't know why this is showing California. I'm in Missouri.

Unfortunately this was a no-show from this vendor. Therefore, I cannot write about any kind of…read moreexperience. It is unfortunate that a professional will not return calls or text messages. They wasted my time and my clients time. In a referral business they unfortunately do not have mine.

I had a minor mold problem (about 1'x1' area in my basement). I reached out to Marvin to get a…read morequote and we discussed my options. Rather than trying to talk me into them coming out and charging their minimum for mold removal, he walked me through what I need to do to safely remove the mold myself including procedures and products to use. This indicates to me that the customer is more important than turning a profit. While I can't comment on their work, I think this speaks volumes to the type of business they are.

This company doesn't communicate very well. They torn my kitchen cabinets out without consulting…read moreme. They cost me 2 times what insurance was going to pay. So they cost me alot of more money. I would never use them an again And would not recommend them for anything to do restoration.

Bradley Hanneman, the manager was out within minutes. Reassured me in the category 5 flood that he…read morewas going to fix everything for me. Within days he had everything, removed, power washed, safe and dry. They even helped with the proper words for insurance would help us get the most payout. I appreciate his and his company's fine work. Choose the best to help fix the mess.

This company is unbelievably great. Stop scrolling and stop here. In 1 hour, they were here…read more Between arriving quickly, working within my budget, quality workmanship and integrity, I would have to give them the highest rating. My peace of mind was met right away by the professionalism displayed. They all worked together as a team with the highest standards. Nick, Jonah, Mark & Jmorie restored my faith in asking for help and receiving it when my home flooded.​

I had water damage due to a leaking toilet. Standard Restoration came out the day I called and…read moreexplained what needed to be done in order to resolve the situation. Mark came out, assessed the situation, and went to work. He moved the items in my garage and organized them outside the work area. He removed the damaged sheet rock and insulation and disposed of it. The garage floor was swept in order to prevent debris from getting into the prepared area. Fans were placed in the sealed area to maximize the drying process. I was very impressed with Mark's knowledge and his workmanship. He was professional, courteous and dedicated to my restoration project. I could not be more pleased with the work he performed and the manner in which he carried it out.